So Much Longing in So Little Space

Munch's ambition was to paint the story about the self, and the method he found was stylised and dream-like representations of inner experiences which were unified enough and lay close enough to known stories or archetypes to be decoded and understood. He removed everything specific and detailed, allowing only the unspecified sweep of memory to rem

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. through the [cave] paintings the animals are drawn into the notional world of human beings. This notional world stands in the same relation to the external world as the self does in relation to the inner world; it prevents us from vanishing into it.

Both the self and the notional world are immaterial entities, they don't exist in the same way elem

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